Party happenings
The Hollywood Reporter Risky Business blog has all the actual happenings at San Diego -- a world of parties far too cool for comic...
2006 Friends of Lulu Award Winners
The 2006 FoL awards were presented in a ceremony at the Bristol Hotel this evening. The winners are:
WOMEN OF DISTINCTION AWARD:
(Honoring women in the...
Superheroes stamps go on sale
Those snappy superhero stamps featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest are going on sale. We're a bit weak on our philately, but...
SDCC: Random Stuff
Looks, here's all the stuff we just didn't have time to write up in its own items. It's a big sloppy mess:
A woman is...
RIP: Mickey Spillane
CNN is reporting that writer Mickey Spillane has died at age 88 after a long illness. Spillane's hardboiled pulp novels, including I, The Jury...
Comics lexicon for a new generation
Continuing its team coverage of SDCC, the San Diego Union-Tribune offers and the most useful and yet arbitrary guide to comics term ever. Sample...
The New World Order
Speaking of Hill & Wang, the Book Standard had a probably the most important story about comics you'll read this week, as the impact...
Linkie winkins
A new 300 video journal is up at Movefone! In this one, Lena Headey explains what it was like to be constantly surrounded on...
Linkie winkies
§ Gossip column All The Rage has a new writer, John Vouleris, as Blair Marnell has decided to take a much-deserved break after writing...
Browser Issues
We know we are having some problems with images butting into the sidebar, and other loading problems here. If the Beat is loking wacky...
It’s quiet out there…too quiet
The news has slowed to a dull crawl out there. Everyone is in full on pre-convention mode, saving all the big announcements for San...
The History of Pop Culture, Bayeux-stylee
We are not quite sure what this site is about, but it seems to have something to do with Russian Folk Art and popular...
